Ball-game apparatus.



PHILIPPE BIBEAULT, OFWOONSOCKET, IRI-IODEISLAND.`

BALL-GAME APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

`Patented Nov. 24,1914.

` Application filed April 28, 1914,. Serial No. 834,923.

T0 all whom t may concern Be it known that I, PHILIPPE BIBEAULT,citizen` of the United States, residing at lVoonsocket, in the county ofProvidence and State of Rhode Island, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Ball-Game Apparatus, of which the following isaspecification.

My present invention and it contemplates the of object balls and a cueball with which may be played upon a pocket billiard or other suitabletable a highly entertaining game.

The invention in all of its details will be fuly understood from thefollowing description and claims 'when the same are read in connectionwith the drawings, accompanying and forming part of this specication, inwhich:

Figure l comprises elevations of the fifteen object balls comprised inthe preferred embodiment of my invention. Fig. 2 comprises elevations,on a reduced scale, of the fifteen object balls and the cue ball; theelevations of the object balls being taken at right angles totheelevations in Fig. 1 to illustrate the fact that the object balls arenumbered 1 to 15 in regular sequence, and that the sequence numerals ofeach object ball are placed in small circles at opposite sides of theballs and midway between the large circles bearing the group number ofthe ball.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in `bothviews of the drawings.

The cue ball la, Fig. 2, may be a plain white ball or a ball of anyother distinctive appearance without affecting' my invention. theplurality of Figs. l and 2. These object balls are numbered from 1 to 15in regular sequence, as illustrated in Fig. 2, the sequence numeralsbeing comparatively small, and being arranged in small circles 1 atdiametrically opposite'` sides of the balls, Fig. 1, and midway betweenthe large circles containing the group members of the balls ashereinafter described.

As shown in Fig. 1, the object balls are `divided into five groups ofthree balls each;

the balls of each group being differentiated from the balls in the othergroups by the group numbers 5, 10, l5, 20 and 25, respectively, the saidgroup numbers being arpertains to ballranged in large circles 2 atdiametrically opposite points on the balls and midway between the beforementioned circles l. Each of the five groups of object balls comprises,a red ball, a white ball and a blue ball, as conventionally shown inboth figures of the drawings. It will also be noticed by reference toFig. l that in addition to the group numbers in the circles or otherinclosures 2, the balls of the several groups are differentiated byleaving the balls bearing the lowest group numbers (5) unstriped, whilethe balls of the other groups are provided with stripes 3 of differentcolors; the stripes of the balls bearing group numbers 10 boing yellow,those of the balls bearing group numbers l5 being bearing the groupednumbers 20 being green, and those of the balls bearing the group numbers25 being black, as conventionally illustrated in Fig. 1.

While I prefer that the three balls `in each group be red, white andblue, it is to be understood that said balls may bear any other threecolors without involving departure from my claimed invention. It is alsoto be understood that without affecting my invention, the differentnumbers of the groups may be other than the numbers 5, 10, 15, 20, and25; and I would further have it understood that the stripes on the ballsin the four lower groups of Fig. 1, may be different from thoseillustrated and specifically referred to.

My novel object balls can be used for p aying any game on a pocketbilliard table.

hey are particularly advantageous, however, because when a ball ispoclted, its color, its sequence number and its group number enter intothe amount to be scored, as does also the fact of the color of thestripe or stripes on the ball. The fact that the balls in one group arenot striped may also enter into the scoring when desired.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters-Patent, is:

1. A game apparatus comprising a set of object balls numbered in regularsequence and divided into groups of balls of different colors; the ballsof each group numbers different from the group numbers of the balls inother groups, and the group number of each ball differing in size fromthe sequence number thereof.

2.` Agame apparatus comprising a set of purple, those of the ballsgroup` bearing` object balls numbered in regular sequence and dividedinto groups of bells of different colors; the balls or" each groupbearing group numbers different from the group numbers of the balls inother groups7 and the group number of each ball differing in size `fromthe sequence number thereof, and the balls of some of the groups beingstriped and the stripes of the bells in each group being different incolor from the stripes of 10 the balls in the other groups.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing Witmesses.

PHILPPE BIBEAULT.

Witnesses PETER SGHULLER, EDGAR L. SPAULDING.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of '.Eatents,

Washington, D. C.

